Ada High School junior guard Courtney Sumner was voted second team All-Northwest Conference in voting recently conducted by the league coaches.
Sumner led Ada in scoring, three-pointers, and steals as the Bulldog girls finished 8-15 overall this season, and 0-8 in the NWC.
Sumner surpassed the 1,000-point barrier in Ada's 45-39 first round tournament loss to Parkway.
Ada sophomore point guard Olivia Burkhart was named honorable mention All-NWC. She was second on the team in scoring and was in the top two with Sumner in assists and steals.
Sophomore Alyvia Lindeman of Delphos Jefferson was named NWC Player of the Year.
The Ada High School girls swim team qualified two members to the state meet with strong individual showings in the Div. II northwest district event Friday, February 17, at Bowling Green State University.
Ada freshman Lily Baumgartner finished second in the 100 butterfly with a personal-best time of 58.04 to make it to Canton.
She finished second in the district 100-yard butterfly with a personal-best time of 58.04. Baumgartner is seeded 13th amid the 24-girl field in the state 100 fly race.
Bulldog junior Kaitlyn Bowden finished 19th in the 100 butterfly race.
The youthful Ada wrestling team competed at the Northwest Conference championship meet hosted by Bluffton Friday evening. Featuring six freshmen wrestlers, the Bulldogs finished eighth at the eight-team event.
Defending champion Allen East repeated again as champions, with Spencerville second and Columbus Grove third.
Ada freshman Liam Vieira went 3-1 at at 120 lbs. with two pins to finish second in his weight class.
Freshman Aedyn Beckwith registered a 2-2 record with one pin at 126 lbs. to finish third.
Freshman Rowan West posted a 3-2 record with two pins to come in third in the 134 lbs. bracket.
Playing at home, the Ada High School boys basketball team started well and battled hard but fell 49-41 to Lincolnview in a Northwest Conference contest to end the regular season Friday, February 18.
On Bulldog senior night–playing before the biggest home crowd of the season–Ada missed 12 of its 20 free throw attempts to impede its own cause.
The Bulldogs led 14-13 after the first quarter, and trailed 24-22 at halftime. The Lancers edged ahead 38-31 after 24 minutes. Ada rallied within four points twice in the final period, but the Lancers put on a late 7-0 run to keep the Bulldogs at bay.
The Ada High School girls basketball team seriously threatened favored Parkway before they succumbed to a late run and fell 45-39 in a Div. IV sectional first round barnburner Wednesday evening, February 16, at Shawnee.
The Lady Bulldogs rallied from a slow start and won the middle quarters, 25-14. Ada led by as many as six points in the third period, and held a 34-29 margin late in the quarter.
But Parkway ended the game on a 16-5 run to pull off the hard-fought victory.
The Lady Bulldogs finished their season 8-15 with the difficult defeat. They put together an 8-7 record in non-conference play.
Coming off a 2021 season in which it earned its first Ohio Athletic Conference Tournament bid in program history, the Ohio Northern women's lacrosse team returns 18 letter winners as it looks to build on that achievement in 2022 under seventh-year head coach Beth Hemminger.
"We've seen a lot of growth over the last few years," Hemminger said. "We've had a lot of youth, so last season was a good opportunity for our players to get a lot of experience. Now our younger girls are elevating their games and stepping up into leadership roles."
Emily Boerger joins Hemminger this season as an assistant coach after serving in the same position for the Swiss National Team in 2021.
